R.I.P. Jacques Hébert.

Jacques Hébert passed away, at the grand age of 84. The man was notable for a bunch of youthy initiatives in Canada - he essentially created Canada World Youth and the unfortunately named Katimavik: these two programs were created in the 1970s and quite groundbreaking in the opportunites they afforded Canadian youth. He believed, as we do at Youthogaphy, that young people could effect massive change if given the right sorts of opportunities and learning. While I wasn't a fan of everything that he did - his 1986 21-day hunger strike to protest Katimavik's funding being dropped was a clever bit of pre-Atkins weight reduction but really over-dramatic and quite unnecessary, I think, in a country where there are so many other ways to protest - but these two programs sprung from the mind of a man who really felt that young people could be a valuable resource for world change. Rest in peace, Sir.